Amid unprecedented data growth, how are businesses optimizing their data environments to ensure data governance while creating analytic value? How do they ensure the delivery of trusted and governed data as they integrate data from a variety of sources?
If providing appropriately governed data across all your data sources is a concern, or if the delivery of consistent, accurate, and trusted analytic insights with the best blended data is important to you, then don’t miss “Delivering Governed Data For Analytics At Scale,” an August 2015 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Pentaho.

This report explains the benefits that Hadoop and Hadoop-based products can bring to organizations today, both for big data analytics and as complements to existing BI and data warehousing technologies based on TDWI research plus survey responses from 325 data management professionals across 13 industries. It also covers Hadoop best practices and provides an overview of tools and platforms that integrate with Hadoop.

In order to meet the changing demands of their customers, organizations need the right solution that can help them harness the vast amounts of customer data in ways that yield personalized, seamless customer experiences. That solution is IBM Watson Engagement Advisor.

This white paper details how the EMC Isilon OneFS architecture provides high availability and data protection needed to meet the challenges organizations face as they deal with the deluge of digital content and unstructured data and the growing importance of data protection.

The Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution presents organizations with a best-of-breed, converged solution, which ensures ease of integration and support, IT operational excellence, and faster time to value.

This paper examines enterprise-class snapshot technologies, discussing use cases for snapshots as well as classic challenges associated with using snapshot technologies in pure hard disk drive (HDD)–based arrays.

This Wikibon research shows that flash will become the lowest cost media for almost all storage from 2016 and beyond, and that a shared data philosophy is required to maximize the potential from both storage cost and application functionality perspectives.

Learn why advanced analytics tools are essential to sustain a competitive advantage. This white paper reveals seven strategic objectives that can be attained to their full potential only by employing predictive analytics.

This white paper offers three options for Windows Server 2003 migration, along with a variety of measures you can take that will help you maintain a strong security posture in the face of today’s dynamic threat landscape.

This 36 page report highlights some of the many ways that security technologies and services - from silicon to sign-on are evolving to provide the visibility and control needed to deploy workloads flexibility in the evolving datacenter, which spans both private and public clouds.

Bruce Rogers, Forbes’ Chief Insights Officer, will discuss the key findings from a survey of senior-level IT and data executives on big data and analytics. He will be joined by Matt Ariker from McKinsey and Chris Twogood from Teradata and together they will present the differences between "leaders" and "laggards" when it comes to analytics initiatives and share how organizations can increase their odds of success with big data and analytics.

Over the years and across industries, it has been proven that increased automation leads to greater efficiency, enhanced productivity and a more agile way of doing business. The same is true for IT: as budgets dwindle, or become stretched to cover a greater range of responsibilities, the need for automation becomes more pronounced.

In both legacy IT data centers and emerging private and public clouds, virtualization is becoming the norm. Through virtualization, organizations are realizing the benefits of scalability, agility and efficiency.

Read more to learn how IT ensures that they are empowering their users with the tools they need to naturally explore data, ask the
next question, and uncover the insight they need to make informed decisions.

Whether you work in marketing, customer service, sales, finance, operations or another area of your business, IBM predictive analytics software puts a wealth of advanced capabilities at your fingertips, anywhere you need them—on premises, on cloud or as a hybrid solution.

Based on our interviews with customers that are leveraging advanced analytics to drive more predictive outcomes for their companies, we found the following conclusions were consistent across all customers.